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We're celebrating 100 years of Scouting!

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In 2007 the Scout Association celebrates it’s Centenary.
Yes - 100 years since Robert Baden-Powell opened an experimental camp on Brownsea Island, Dorset for 20 boys. The eight-day programme, which began on 1st August 1907, was designed to teach key skills, ranging from fun games to noble values such as chivalry and discipline.
Scouts were taught practical skills for outdoor living, including many things that the modern-day Scout is expected to know, such as how to:

·        Put up tents
·        Lay and light a fire and cook their own food
·        Tie logs together to make bridges and rafts
·        Find their way by night and day in a strange country

His new Scouting Movement, with its promise of outdoor adventure was an immediate success and has continued to grow ever since. Now, 28 million young people and adults in over 200 Countries worldwide enjoy the fun and friendship of Scouting.
Kidderminster Scouts are celebrating this Centenary Year with a programme of events and activities including: -

Centenary St Georges Day parade through the Town & a Service at Wyre Forest Glades.
Centenary Camp @ Rhydd Covert Campsite & Activity Centre - Spring Bank Holiday Scout Movement is encouraging as many young people as possible to camp this W/E.
100 Campfire Songs - Beavers, Cubs & Scouts will be singing
100 Campfire songs around the campfire in the middle of the town centre to entertain shoppers.
Kidderminster Carnival - 100 Scouts to join the carnival procession depicting 100 years of Scouting.
June 30th - BBQ @ Rhydd Covert for all past members of Scouting in Kidderminster.
1st August – Scouting’s Centenary Sunrise & Wyre Forest International Centenary Jamboree @ Rhydd Covert Campsite & Activity Centre
October - Centenary Pledged Plod - Sponsored walk around Rhydd Covert & the Rifle Range.
100 hours of Community Service to be carried out in an around the town centre.
Doing 100 Good Turns.
100 Abseils down a building in the town centre
Donating 100 pints of blood.
100 Penalties Shoot Out

So what do young people today enjoy about Scouting?

From a Beaver Scout -
‘The best thing we did was swim in the rain. I wasn’t even sure we were allowed to, but it was brilliant! I mean we were wet anyway, so I guess it didn’t matter too much about the weather.’

A Cub Scout says - ‘The best part of Scouting is definitely the camps. I love every activity we do apart from swimming. They told us the pool was 24 degrees centigrade. Minus 24 more like!’

A Scouts view - ‘It’s good to get out basically. I wasn’t too keen to go to Scouts to begin with but now it’s a good laugh. All the activities we do are fun and I’ve made loads of great mates.’

An Explorer Scout reports - ‘To anyone who hasn’t tried Scouting before, I’d say come on up and have a go! I think that most people don’t really know that Scouting is about activities, friendship and meeting people from other countries. I’ve been in the Movement since I was a Beaver and I still love it!’

And here is what the Chief Scout, Peter Duncan, says he is looking forward to in 2007...

‘Scouting offers young people a challenging framework to help them reach their full physical, emotional and creative potential. In 2007 40,000 boys and girls from around the world will come together at the 21st World Scout Jamboree. For them it will be a chance to interact with someone from every nation on earth. Scouting is a million times bigger than when it first started and I can't wait to help lead the Movement forward into another hundred years full of adventure, challenge and excitement!’

Did you know?

Each Year Scouts spend over 2 million nights away from home doing adventurous activities
More young people do adventurous activities with Scouting than with any other organisation
Scouting is the only organisation to operate in all but 6 of the world’s 220 countries & territories
Each year Scouts undertaking the Queen’s Scout Award walk the equivalent distance of once around the world
Scouting is the largest membership organisation in the world working for peace

Who Can Join?

Anyone from age 6 upwards can enjoy Scouting in the following ways: -

BEAVERS: for 6 to 8 year olds
fun and friends

CUBS: Aged 8 to 10½?
could you be the leader of the pack?

SCOUTS: for 10½ to 14 year olds
the adventure grows

EXPLORER SCOUTS: Aged 14 to 18?
“it does exactly what it says on the tin”!

SCOUT NETWORK AND FELLOWSHIP:
not forgetting the over 18's!

ALL THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE SECTIONS ABOVE NEED SUPPORT & LEADERSHIP – YOU COULD HELP!

NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY – NO TIME DEMANDS ~ A FEW HOURS A WEEK, A FEW HOURS A MONTH OR EVEN A FEW HOURS A YEAR ~ IT ALL HELPS

JOIN THE ADVENTURE!!

If you have any comments, suggestions or contributions you would like to make, please email them to the

For general enquiries, including how to join,
please contact Deputy District Commissioner Jenny Greener:

Email:

Tel:

01299 402 889

Post:

40 Coniston Way, Bewdley, Worcestershire, DY12 2PP, UK

www.kidderminsterscouts.org.uk